Avril Joy

Writer on the loose after 25 years in prison. Costa short story winner, novel, The Silent Women, the dark, sometimes brutal, world of the Victorian asylum...

[Avril Joy @JoyAvril]

Phew! Two years of research, reading, thinking, but most of all writing and it’s now ready for pre-order from @LinenPressBooks - The Silent Women, set in a Victorian asylum, link here to pre-order and early reviews! https://t.co/LlaQoYCfHk

[Julia Webb @Julwe1]

When you finish a novel and feel devastated - both that it's finished and because of the way that book has exposed the world and made you think about your place in it and how you behave. #ElizabethStrout

[Protect Kamala Harris ✊ @DisavowTrump20]

Legendary Singer Neil Young has removed all his albums from Amazon Music due to founder Jeff Bezos and his support for Donald Trump.

RETWEET to thank @NeilYoung for standing up for our democracy!

[Ben Mcbean OFFICIAL @benmcbean]

Trying to convince myself and my parents I’ll be fine after fighting a bit further back from the front line.

[Kate Clanchy @KateClanchy1]

All of the women and girls I teach have the support of Afghan men or they wouldn't be able to access even online learning. Adiba wrote this for her father.

[Martina Navratilova @Martina]

Wow…👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

[Kate Clanchy @KateClanchy1]

Inspired by @j_amesmarriott I wrote a post about professional jealousy. Free to read.
https://t.co/UZM2wZS5dC

[Kate Clanchy @KateClanchy1]

When BBC Radio 4 was making Anatomy of a Cancellation, I had to go to London three times to record interviews. Each time I walked into Broadcasting House I passed chanting protesters with percussion. I saw them mob individual journalists and shout their names. Meantime on twitter, I saw @katierazz denigrated by name by people she'd asked to appear on the programme. Those nasty remarks must have appeared on her phone, very close and personal, like the protesters shouting in journalist's faces. The programme was about the punishments meted out to someone who got on the wrong side of the mob.
I think those pressures show in the finished programme, especially in the way that my language is intensively investigated while that of my critics is not. I think I get more hard questions. But I also think Katie Razzall was brave to take on the material and that only the BBC could have interrogated the story in this way. I think she, and Radio 4, are trying very hard to tell the truth in uniquely tough conditions. I think we have to stop shouting in people's faces. I think we need the BBC.
https://t.co/90XIwunF7E

[Avril Joy @JoyAvril]

@KateClanchy1 Still writing - for my sins! Novel published in 2023 The Silent Women , about three women in an asylum - the prison never quite leaves me. Cant tell you how pleased I am to see you so deservedly vindicated

[Avril Joy @JoyAvril]

@KateClanchy1 Astonishingly good, so powerful- I won’t ever forget reading this Adiba

[Kate Clanchy @KateClanchy1]

Adiba wrote this in my online workshop for women in Afghanistan. Please pass it on.

[Barbara Bleiman 🎓 Education is Conversation @BarbaraBleiman]

Here’s what I said at the time. Whatever one thinks about this tragic, painful saga, I remain in awe of @KateClanchy1’s ability to foster & promote young people’s poetry writing - incl the poems by Afghani children she’s currently sharing on SM. https://t.co/Bv2cb8POn5

[Amanda Craig @AmandaPCraig]

If you are appalled by what ⁦@KateClanchy1⁩ suffered, both on X and bcs of her cowardly publishers ⁦@panmacmillan⁩ as described in ⁦@thetimes⁩ today, buy her books, esp this one. She is now published ⁦@_SwiftPress⁩

[Avril Joy @JoyAvril]

@BBCNews So pleased for you Kate - but far too long in the making

[BBC News (UK) @BBCNews]

Publisher apologises to author Kate Clanchy four years after book controversy https://t.co/eiTbWYNrjV

[The Bookseller @thebookseller]

Pan Macmillan has apologised to its former author Kate Clanchy three years on from parting company with the writer after she was accused of racial stereotyping, an accusation she denies 👇

[Jeni Farnsworth @farnsjennifer]

Michael Wolff’s Instagram: Michael Wolff vs Melania Trump: See you (and your husband) in court.
“I’d like nothing better than to get Donald Trump + Melania Trump under oath in front of a court reporter and actually find out all of the details of their relationship with Epstein.”

[Mark Cockerton @CockertonMark]

This could be interesting.

[Robby Roadsteamer @RobbyRoadsteame]

Another angle of the ICE Agents arresting me for singing in Portland Oregon!

🎥 By Alex Gonzo

RT so Elon has to pay me TWITTER AD revenue money for Lawyers 💖🌈

[Peter Jukes @peterjukes]

The new edition of @BylineTimes goes to the printers tomorrow.

And we go where others fear to tread…

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